Background ~
Rachel is a lecturer in photography, as well as a fine art photographer, picture editor and freelancer for the magazine industry. During my degree Rachel has done lectures and talks about her own practice and career, so for the final workshop Rachel taught the class how to use the process of the paper negative.
The paper negative made her fall back in love with photography. She did a lot of research on the early discoveries of photography and how it changed the way society viewed the world, which it still does now. She chose to learn the paper negative technique due to the rate of inflation on film, as it has now gone up by 20%. Therefore the paper negative technique is a cheaper way to make imagery similar to analogue and it is more economical.
The start of the workshop was a historical review of the camera obscura, educating us on how photography got to the point it is at today. The way that the paper negative technique works is the object (metal plate/paper) is placed in the room with the person being photographed. The object is then projection onto the paper that is exposed with the shutter on the camera.
We were working with an iso of 6, due to the paper being very slow at exposing. Cutting the paper into 5x4 pieces and putting them into the dark slides allowed us to place them into the back of the camera, ready to be exposed. The first picture we exposed for 2 seconds because the light meter recommended that we use a shutter speed of 2 seconds and an aperture of f4.0, so we set the aperture to 4.5 and iso 6.
Then the dark slide were taken to the dark room where we each developed our own images, using the developer, stopper and fixer solutions to ensure that are images were prepared to be exposed to normal light.
Website ~
https://www.rachel-brown.com
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